volunteers wanted

From:

Josh

Subject:

volunteers wanted

Date:

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:03:59 -0500

Hello,

due to me having a wife and family and possible job
opportunity I currently do not have the time to learn c++ programming.
Nevertheless I have an idea for a project and was wondering if anyone on this
list could help either program or point me in the direction of volunteers.

For several year now if blind or visually impaired
people want to use Mobile Phones or Cell Phones they have to pay an extra $300
for a screen reader called Talks or $300 for another screen reader called
MobileSpeak. I would like to bring that cost down to $0.00 by making my own
screen reader for Symbian phones which uses ESpeak for speech output and brltty
for braille output.

A screen reader is a software
application that attempts to identify and interpret what is being
displayed on the screen (or, more accurately, sent to standard
output,whether a video monitor is present or not). This
interpretation is then re-presented to the user with
text-to-speech,sound icons,or a Braille output device.Screen
readers are a form of assistive technology (AT) potentially useful
to people who are blind,visually impaired,illiterate or
learning disabled,often in combination with other AT, such as screen
magnifiers.

If anyone is interested in this project please let
me know. Also there is a free gps program for blind and visually impaired people
called loadstone gps at www.loadstone-gps.com it's free open
source software. If anyone could use ESpeak to make Loadstone self-voiceing or
help with this that would be great, and you would be allowing many many more
blind people to get their hands on this gps technology. Ordinarily for a blind
person to purchase gps they need the state to invest thousands of dollars. By
making Loadstone self-voiceing you will be driving down the cost to perhaps $200
or less.